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Joe Sparks, MedicareForAllExplained Podcast Host
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Medicare for All Explained is a podcast made in collaboration with . The purpose is to build support for Medicare for All. Contact info is on the website.
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The “advantage” in Medicare Advantage plans seems to go to the insurers who exploited Medicare for billions. — Gary Schwitzer Well said! Now tell me when are we going to get rid of Medicare [Dis]-Advantage. See #1 in this article.
While we increase our military spending to deal with threats that may or may not happen, we do nothing about a current deadly threat in this country that kills 76,000 people/year, the U.S. healthcare system. We need #MedicareForAll now.
Here are 10 great ways to boost your immune system. I don't think it's amazement. It's the fact that vaccines have been proven to work by study after study and in the real world. GET VACCINATED TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND OTHERS!
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Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system: The Tetanus vaccine The Measles vaccine The Polio vaccine The Mumps vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine - @HislopMD
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If a surgeon denied or tried to prescribe psychiatric medications, they could lose their medical license. This is not allowed in a medical setting, so how come we allow health insurance companies to deny care this way? We need to ban this.
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I’m a psychiatrist. My patient’s request for ADHD medication was denied by insurance, because, it was. I appealed appropriately. My appeal was denied after review by a peer. The peer was a surgeon. BUT WAIT, they assured me another peer reviewed it too. He was…also a surgeon.
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I wish people would realize what a big scam health insurance is and how bad it is for economic growth. That is one of many reasons why we need #MedicareForAll.
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Honestly an underrated part of regulation is saving companies from themselves. It gets framed as an inevitable tradeoff between economic growth and consumer protection - which might be the case on some margins - but doing scams is actually bad for economic growth in the long term
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Let me know if you have any plan to fight inflation or just want to complain about it. The best way to fight inflation now would be price controls and an excess profit tax. Since I doubt you have a plan, let me know when you support my plan.
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The price of everyday goods including gasoline, groceries and rents is up AGAIN when compared to last month. What’s Joe Biden doing differently to stop it? Nothing.
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